Semantics And Lexicography

Author : Julie Coleman,Christian J. Kay
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027299611

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Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography by Julie Coleman,Christian J. Kay Pdf

The papers in this volume show the range and direction of current work in historical semantics and word-studies. There is a strong focus throughout on semantic change and lexical innovation, interpreted within a sociolinguistic, cultural or textual context. Many of the papers draw on the remarkable range of electronic resources now available to historical linguists, notably corpora, dictionaries, bibliographies and thesauruses, and show the effects that these have had in stimulating new lines of research or the re-interpretation of previous conclusions. Cognitive semantics, and especially prototype theory, emerges as a challenging theoretical framework for much current research. The volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 10th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (10ICEHL). They include work on historical lexicography and an account of the workshop on electronic dictionary resources, such as the Revised Oxford English Dictionary, which formed the centrepiece of the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium.

Author : Jerzy Tomaszczyk,Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027278197

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Meaning and Lexicography by Jerzy Tomaszczyk,Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk Pdf

While lexicology, lexical semantics, and lexicography all share an interest in lexical items, they often tend to be regarded as three separate albeit interrelated fields. Indeed, the extent to which the interrelationship is recognized and taken into account in lexicographic practice is the moot point. The conference which produced the papers offered in this volume was designed to bring their practioners together and thus gives an impetus to closer cooperation among them, It is the editors' conviction that the practical activity of lexicography should learn more from its sister fields. People working in lexicography, lexical semantics, etc. may find some of the insights arrived at in the more practically oriented descriptions pertinent and useful.

Author : Herbert Ernst Wiegand
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110946048

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Semantics and Lexicography by Herbert Ernst Wiegand Pdf

This volume is a compilation of nine articles, translated from German. They deal with those lexicographic texts or text excerpts which have been formulated in order to convey the meaning of a lexical unit to a potential dictionary user who is not familiar with that meaning. The articles not only critically analyze lexicographic practice, in particular the so-called lexicographic definitions and the items giving the synonyms in correlation with the examples, in the light of different semantic approaches. They also present ways towards a common understanding in the context of lexicographically imparting knowledge of meaning, i.e. on the basis of an actional-semantics approach which takes into account results obtained from analyses of everyday dialogs about word meanings. Moreover, they discuss how meaning-conveying texts can serve their purposes in dictionary look-up situations, and they lay out all those aspects which are particularly to be taken into consideration in the formulation of lexicographic texts aimed at conveying meaning, in dictionaries belonging to different types.

Author : Julie Coleman,Christian Kay
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027237018

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Lexicology, Semantics, and Lexicography by Julie Coleman,Christian Kay Pdf

Including a selection of papers originally presented at the 10th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, the contributions to this volume aim to show the breadth and depth of late-1990s studies in lexicology, semantics and lexicography.

Author : Marie-Claude L'Homme
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261786

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Lexical Semantics for Terminology by Marie-Claude L'Homme Pdf

Lexical Semantics for Terminology: An introduction explores the interconnections between lexical semantics and terminology. More specifically, it shows how principles borrowed from lexico-semantic frameworks and methodologies derived from them can help understand terms and describe them in resources. It also explains how lexical analysis complements perspectives primarily focused on knowledge. Topics such as term identification, meaning, polysemy, relations between terms, and equivalence are discussed thoroughly and illustrated with examples taken from various fields of knowledge. This book is an indispensable companion for those who are interested in words and work with specialized terms, e.g. terminologists, translators, lexicographers, corpus linguists. A background in terminology or lexical semantics is not required since all notions are defined and explained. This book complements other textbooks on terminology that do not focus on lexical semantics per se.

Author : Dirk Geeraerts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198700302

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Theories of Lexical Semantics by Dirk Geeraerts Pdf

This text provides an introduction to the history and current state of theories of word meanings.

Author : Carolin Ostermann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110424164

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Cognitive Lexicography by Carolin Ostermann Pdf

English lexicography and linguistics have always shared close ties, yet the potential of cognitive linguistics for lexicography has only been hesitantly acknowledged in the literature. This is what cognitive lexicography attempts to change by using insights gained in cognitive semantic research for the development of new dictionary features. After a short survey of the history and practice of English monolingual learner lexicography, as well as an outline of the relationship between linguistics and lexicography, three new dictionary features are developed. They cover three different cognitive semantic theories as well as three different parts of the monolingual dictionary entry, each time for a new set of lexemes. Frame semantics, conceptual metaphor theory, as well as cognitive conceptions of polysemy, are used to create a new example section for agentive nouns, a new defining structure for emotion terms and a new microstructural arrangement for particle entries. Dictionary analyses on all, as well as user studies on two of the features, complement these suggestions. The monograph thus presents a new approach to lexicography that incorporates into its description of lexical items how humans perceive and conceptualise language.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401203722

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The Power of Words by Anonim Pdf

This volume comprises essays in lexicography, lexicology and semantics by leading international experts in these fields. The contributions cover Old, Middle and Present-Day English and Scots, and specific subjects include medical vocabulary, colour lexemes, and semantic and pragmatic meaning in terms for politeness, money and humour. In the area of Old English studies there are articles on kinship terminology and colour lexemes, and in Middle English a semantic and syntactic study of the overlapping of the verbs dreden and douten. Many of the essays make use of the Historical Thesaurus of English project at the University of Glasgow, and pay tribute to its Director, Professor Christian Kay; e.g., one article demonstrates how the HTE, a project which is at the interface between historical semantics and lexicography, may present a rich resource for information about the lexicalization of concepts within our culture, such as changing social attitudes in the area of will, consent and coercion. Other resources, such as The Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English, and the Oxford English Dictionary provide a rich source for information on historical lexicography, semantics and editing. A number of essays concern the Scots language, such as an analysis of evaluative terms in modern Scots speech and writing, the rich potential of rhyme in Scots, and the role of lexicon in th- fronting in Glaswegian.

Author : F. Kiefer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401017077

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Studies in Syntax and Semantics by F. Kiefer Pdf

In the last decade a profound change has occurred in linguistic science. Not only have old problems been tackled from an entirely new point of view but also quite a few new fields of linguistic research have been opened. The common characteristic of the majority of the theories and methods developed recently is the search for a more adequate description of language. Adequacy does not mean simply that the theory must conform to the facts. It must also meet the general requirements of present-day theories: coherence, clear-cut notions, rigor of presentation. It has also become abundantly clear that linguistic research cannot be content with the registration and classification of linguistic phenomena. In one way or another linguistics must try to explain the deep-seated regularities in language which in general do not appear on the surface in some straightforward way. Therefore, we find the attribute 'deep' very often in contemporary linguistic literature. Linguistic theories seek an explanation for the observed facts in terms of a system of hypotheses about the functioning of language. As research proceeds these will undergo essential changes. Some of them will be waived, others com plemented. The papers of the present volume follow these general principles of linguistic theory though they may differ from each other in the way of presentation considerably. Some of the papers make use of the framework of transformational-generative grammar (e. g. Kuroda; Perlmutter), others approach the pertinent problem from a different angle (e. g. Dupraz and Rouault; Apresyan, Mel'cuk, and Zolkovski).

Author : Leonhard Lipka
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Lexicology
ISBN : 3823349953

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English Lexicology by Leonhard Lipka Pdf

Author : Leonhard Lipka
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015019489387

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An Outline of English Lexicology by Leonhard Lipka Pdf

Outline of English Lexicology: Lexical Structure, Word Semantics and Word Formation.

Author : Philip Durkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199691630

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The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography by Philip Durkin Pdf

This volume provides concise, authoritative accounts of the approaches and methodologies of modern lexicography and of the aims and qualities of its end products. Leading scholars and professional lexicographers, from all over the world and representing all the main traditions andperspectives, assess the state of the art in every aspect of research and practice. The book is divided into four parts, reflecting the main types of lexicography. Part I looks at synchronic dictionaries - those for the general public, monolingual dictionaries for second-language learners, andbilingual dictionaries. Part II and III are devoted to the distinctive methodologies and concerns of the historical dictionaries and specialist dictionaries respectively, while chapters in Part IV examine specific topics such as description and prescription; the representation of pronunciation; andthe practicalities of dictionary production. The book ends with a chronology of the major events in the history of lexicography. It will be a valuable resource for students, scholars, and practitioners in the field.

Author : Uriel Weinreich
Publisher : Anniversary Collection
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCAL:B4283084

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On Semantics by Uriel Weinreich Pdf

Uriel Weinreich was of the innovative and creative thinkers in the field of semantics in the twentieth century. This volume contains all of Weinreich's writings on semantics, including a number of papers that were not published in his lifetime. It includes the first paper on the universals of semantic theory, an analysis of the fundamental concepts of semantics and semiotics, and a critique of lexicography.

Author : Heming Yong,Jing Peng
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027292407

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Bilingual Lexicography from a Communicative Perspective by Heming Yong,Jing Peng Pdf

This stimulating new book, as the premier work introducing bilingual lexicography from a communicative perspective, is launched to represent original thinking and innovative theorization in the field of bilingual lexicography. It treats the bilingual dictionary as a system of intercultural communication and bilingual dictionary making as a dynamic process realized by sets of choices, characterizing the overall nature of the dictionary. It examines the dictionary and dictionary making by using a model of lexicography which stresses the three-way relationship of compiler, dictionary context and user and incorporates them into a unified coherent framework. Throughout the study, special focus is on English and Chinese bilingual lexicography. It will serve not only as a valuable guide to those interested in dictionary compilation and theoretical inquiries but also as a textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in bilingual lexicography.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004489349

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A Changing World of Words by Anonim Pdf

From the contents: Maurizio GOTTI: The origin of 17th century canting terms. - Anne MCDERMOTT: Early dictionaries of English and historical corpora: in search of hard words. - Paivi KOIVISTO-ALANKO: Prototypes in semantic change: a diachronic perspective on abstract nouns. - Manuela ROMANO POZO: A morphodynamic interpretation of synonymy and polysemy in Old English."